From: Asia Times
Bomb Iran fever
Pepe Escobar
…earlier last week, a leak to the Yediot Ahronot daily [2] revealed that the cream of Israel’s military leaders are against war on Iran – known in its aseptic version as “preemptive strike”.
It’s an impressive cast of characters. Here we have chief of the general staff Benny Gantz; the chief of operations of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Ya’akov Ayash; Tamir Pardo, the head of Mossad; Aviv Kochavi, in charge of Aman, the military intelligence directorate; the department heads of Mossad; the head of the Israeli Air Force Amir Eshel; not to mention at least four ministers of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s eight-man “kitchen cabinet”.
There are qualifiers. Some admit they would only support an attack on Iran if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – or International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors – announced a major weaponization game changer. Some others admit they will only support an attack if the US is on board; that’s the case of retired Mossad heads Meir Dagan and Efraim Halevy and former chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
The key player here is of course Gantz. He’s always kept the attack option on the table. But he has also leaked that he knows any attack, even successful, won’t smash Iran’s nuclear program; besides, he also fears the geopolitical repercussions. When Gantz admitted a tiny sliver of all this on an Israeli TV channel, Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the report to “disappear”. [3]
So it boils down essentially to Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] and Barak [Defense Minister Ehud Barak] against all the above. …
The whole convoluted premise for an Israeli attack on Iran turns out to be bogus.
Entire Article Here
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M. Savage
So Israel doesn’t have a leg to stand on…?? Another country wants to wipe you off the face of the earth and you are suppose to sit back and see your fellow countrymen get slaughtered?
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-israels-existence-insult-humanity-093922735.html
Jeff Fenske
It’s remarkable how you know better than Israel’s military leaders and the Israeli people. It amazes me how coldblooded killers so many people have been come. And many call themselves ‘Christians.’ War is supposed to be the last resort, actual repentance the first. I don’t see much repentance, reconcilation (getting right with those that the ‘Christians’ have hurt), but I see a lot of warmongering. God will make sure that we reap what we sow. And Jesus said, “those who live by the sword die by the sword.” Our turn is now coming, thanks especially to the warmongering reverse-Christians. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” The second greatest commandment is to love our neighbor as ourselves, which includes all of those in middle eastern countries too.
M. Savage
http://news.yahoo.com/tumour-israel-soon-destroyed-ahmadinejad-091548418.html